U.S. Should Focus On Minds As Well As Minerals in Afghanistan
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › June 18, 2010
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WASHINGTON -- Amid all the dark news from Afghanistan, every now and then a sliver of light slips through the cracks.
Afghanistan, it turns out, is rich in minerals. Trillions rich. It's going to become the Saudi Arabia of lithium, they say. Thanks to vast stores of that resource, plus iron, copper, cobalt and gold, this impoverished, war-torn nation could become a wealthy nation.See the full content of this document
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U.S. Should Focus On Minds As Well As Minerals in Afghanistan
No more wars, no Taliban, no heroin, no Osama bin Laden.
Too good to be true, right?The deposits are real enough, but the question remains: Can a country without mining infrastructure and populated by people who ha...See the full content of this document
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